'Freedom to be all that you can be - or freedom for others to hurt you at will? Butcher's book gets to the heart of the American drama defining our age.' Peter Pomerantsev, author of How to Win an Information War 'A deeply researched, fair-minded and bracing book. Melissa Butcher offers a window into how Americans define "freedom" in wildly different ways. In doing so, she reveals the popular appeal of the MAGA movement and examines the ideas that are at the core of its most indefatigable critics.' Matthew Dallek, author of Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right 'In this perceptive travelogue, Melissa Butcher joins a storied tradition kickstarted by the likes of Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont. After travelling the nation and interviewing hundreds of people across the political spectrum, Butcher offers keen insights into American political culture and its obsession with freedom. The takeaway: the United States is descending into civil war levels of polarisation in the abstract, but at a granular level, Americans have more in common than they think - and all hope is not lost.' Andrew Hartman, author of Karl Marx in America.